▲That was my job: to keep him alive and healthy, so they could kill him at a later date.
(那就是我的工作:要讓他健康的活著,好讓他們稍後可以將他處決。)──在伊拉克前總統海珊被絞刑處死前,在巴格達附近拘留中心負責照顧他一年多的美軍士官長艾利斯(Robert Ellis)談這位獨裁者生前最後這段日子在獄中的生活
▲Many lost the opportunity to make fast money. I haven't experienced anything like this before. We've become too dependent on these optic fibers -- a few of them get damaged, and everything collapses.
(很多人痛失快速賺錢的機會,我過去從未有這種經驗,我們變得太依賴這些光纖電纜了,震斷幾條,全都垮了。)──南台灣發生規模六點七強震,全台四條海底光纜被震斷,國際商務通訊也受到嚴重影響,香港富昌金融集團(Fulbright Securities)總經理表示,商業損失難以估計
▲Most online games are routed through Taiwan, and now I can't play any of them. I can't contact a lot of people because my e-mail is down. It's a hassle and it's depressing, but I can't do anything about it.
(大部分線上遊戲要經由台灣轉來,我根本不能玩,也不能和很多人聯繫,因為我的伊媚兒也掛 了,這下麻煩大了,實在令人沮喪,但我也束手無策。)──屏東恆春百年大地震,上千萬網民無法登入MSN和境外網站,香港28歲的丹尼爾.李抱怨,他不能再像平常每天花十個小時上網打電動
▲Our long national nightmare is over.
(我們國家長時間的噩夢總算結束。)──美國前總統福特以九三高齡過世,在尼克森因水門案下台後,他於1974年8月9日宣誓就職時希望美國能盡快走出水門案的陰影